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Highway 60 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning, March 3, for police activity from Interstate 10 to Gilman Springs Road in Moreno Valley, CHP and Caltrans officials reported.
The closure began before 10 a.m.
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Updates with name of deceased.
A driver swerved into oncoming traffic and collided with a vehicle, leading to the death of a man in Moreno Valley on Friday night, Feb. 27.
The crash was reported at 11:35 p.m. on Moreno Beach Drive between Cottonwood Avenue and Auto Mall Drive, authorities said.
A vehicle travelin

Artists needed for Empty Bowl project MORENO VALLEY – The Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation and the Salvation Army are seeking artists to design bowls for their second annual Empty Bowl Project. Artists can choose to work on a wooden bowl, or a wooden plate, which are available at the Vanguard Cultural Arts Museum Galle

Moreno Valley school officials plan to interview seven candidates and make their selection to fill a vacancy on the school board Tuesday, March 3. The Moreno Valley Unified School District board has been short one member since January when Tracey Vackar resigned after winning election in November to the Riverside Community College Distric

A man was stabbed in Moreno Valley and the attacker was at large Thursday, Feb 26, a sheriff's official said.
The incident happened shortly before 7:55 a.m. in the 14700 block of Croftboro Road. A man was found with at least one stab wound and paramedics took him to a hospital, said sheriff's Deputy Armando Muñoz.
Deputies

The Moreno Valley City Council has given itself a greater role in personnel decisions, despite reservations from the city attorney. The council voted 3-2 Tuesday, Feb. 24, to require the city manager to submit decisions on promotions, hirings and firings to the council for ratification. That’s a change from the city’s m

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported who received $240 in beverages from Highland Fairview for a campaign event. Only council candidate Yxstian Gutierrez got the donation. Also, the amount of money spent on Jeffrey Giba's behalf was incorrect. A Highland Fairview committee spent $254,723 to support him.

Moreno Valley is holding off on considering an ethics committee for now. The City Council tabled discussion Tuesday, Feb. 24 of a proposal for drafting an ordinance that would be modeled after the city of Riverside’s ethics code. Mayor Jesse Molina, who had asked for the proposal, said the city should take more time to consid

Moreno Valley is looking for soccer players interested in representing the city in a regional soccer tournament. The city’s team will compete in the Mayor’s Cup Soccer Challenge on May 2 in Riverside which will pit teams from cities from across the Inland area. The teams include both men and women Coaching applications

A motorcycle rider went down in lanes on Highway 60 and was injured in Moreno Valley, a CHP incident log shows.
The crash was reported at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, on the westbound side near Day Street. At least one witness told a dispatcher that a Ford Focus cut off the bike, causing the rider to rear-end the car, the log shows.

A head-on crash along a major road between Moreno Valley and San Jacinto killed a 48-year-old Ontario woman, say California Highway Patrol and county coroner's officials.
Gloria Quintero died at the scene of the 7:02 p.m. wreck Sunday, Feb. 22, along Gilman Springs Road about the length of a football field west of Peppertree Lane.

The Moreno Valley City Council will discuss creating an ethics code and committee at the Tuesday, Feb. 24 meeting. Mayor Jesse Molina asked at the Feb. 10 meeting that a proposal be drafted for an ad hoc committee, saying he wanted to create more transparency. He suggested the city model it after the city of Riverside but did not say how

James Andrews carried his belongings into a small room at the U.S. Vets facility, discussing his hopes for a new start after some difficult years.
“It’s kind of weird to be in my own place again,” the 49-year-old Army veteran said Thursday. “It’s been such a long time.”
Andrews moved into one o

Moreno Valley has launched a new website called “Let’s Talk MoVal” to provide a forum for residents to to discuss community issues.
City officials say they will use feedback gathered on the website, letstalkmoval.mindmixer.com/, to help make decisions on a variety of projects. Website users can create a profile that all

Altura Credit Union and Visterra Credit Union have announced their intention to merge financial institutions.
The proposed merger was announced Thursday, Feb. 19. It could close as early as July 1, creating a $1 billion credit union with 337 employees serving 118,000 members across the Inland region.
The combined institution at t

The Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation’s “From Lagos to Moreno Valley; A Celebration of Black History Month” exhibition runs through March 9 at their Vanguard Cultural Arts Museum Gallery. The exhibition features several local African-American artists, such as Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja, Charles Bibbs, Bernard Stanley H

Middle managers at Moreno Valley City Hall may soon be required to pay union dues.
Though the City Council rejected the idea last week, union members could soon force a vote for “agency shop status,” which allows the union to collect dues from all employees in its group and bargain on their behalf.
The Moreno Valley Management As

A hit-and-run crash left a motorcycle rider in critical condition and detectives are looking for the driver responsible, a sheriff's official said.
The rider, whose name was not released, was going south in the fast lane of Lassell Street near Camino Quintana shortly before 6:42 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, when a newer-model silver sedan drivi

A nighttime rollover crash near Moreno Valley killed a 54-year-old resident of that city and sent three other people to the hospital with moderate to major injuries, say Riverside County Fire Department and county coroner's officials.
William Miller died at the scene of the 7:36 p.m. wreck Saturday, Feb. 14, along San Timoteo Canyon Road

Updates with arrest, photo
A man who authorities say tried to rob a Moreno Valley bank by claiming he had a bomb disappeared by the time deputies arrived Friday, Feb. 13, but he later turned himself in, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said.
Marvin Goldmas, 38, of Moreno Valley, showed up at the Moreno Valley sh

Moreno Valley will set aside $250,000 to begin planning a project to widen the Redlands Boulevard overpass at Highway 60.
The two-lane bridge had been the only one of four in the city’s eastern part for which the city had no plans to widen to deal with expected traffic increases, Public Works Director Ahmad Ansari said.
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Applicants for a vacancy on the Moreno Valley school board will be interviewed at a March 3 meeting. Seven candidates have applied for the position on the Moreno Valley Unified School District board as of the Thursday, Feb. 12 deadline, according to an agenda for the Tuesday meeting.The district was also allowing applications to be postma

Moreno Valley has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit with two former city employees who say they were fired for prosecuting code enforcement violations by a former councilman.
Former building official Anne Schneider and former Code Compliance Manager Albert Brady each received $600,000 in a settlement that the City Council ag

The $1.5 million contract has been awarded to repair the Theodore Street overpass over the 60 freeway in Moreno Valley, Caltrans announced.
Skanska USA received the contract to rebuild two of the six girders on the south side of the bridge over the westbound lanes.
The overpass will rema

The man shot to death Wednesday in Moreno Valley was identified Thursday, Feb. 12, as a Los Angeles man.
Moises Molina, 24, died at 7:54 p.m. at Riverside County Regional Medical Center, 38 minutes after h